Bill Text: TX HB396 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to providing a federal postcard applicant with a ballot for certain elections in which the applicant is eligible to vote.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB396 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB396-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 396

AN ACT
relating to providing a federal postcard applicant with a ballot
for certain elections in which the applicant is eligible to vote.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 101.054, Election Code, is amended by
amending Subsections (a) and (b) and adding Subsection (b-1) to
read as follows:
(a) A person may apply with a single federal postcard
application for a ballot for any one or more elections in which the
person is eligible to vote as provided by this section [the early
voting clerk to whom the application is submitted conducts early
voting].
(b) An application that does not identify the election for
which a ballot is requested shall be treated as if it requests a
ballot for:
(1) except as provided by Subdivision (3), each
general election in which the clerk conducts early voting; [and]
(2) the general primary election if the application
indicates party preference and is submitted to the early voting
clerk for the primary; and
(3) each general or special election held by a county,
a municipality, or an independent school district in the calendar
year in which the application is received and in which the person is
eligible to vote.
(b-1) If an application under Subsection (b) indicates the
person is eligible to vote in an election described by Subsection
(b)(3) in which the early voting clerk who received the application
does not conduct early voting, the clerk shall forward a copy of the
application in a form prescribed by the secretary of state to each
early voting clerk who conducts early voting for that election.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 396 was passed by the House on May 2,
2013, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 4, 2 present, not
voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
H.B. No. 396 on May 20, 2013, and requested the appointment of a
conference committee to consider the differences between the two
houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
on H.B. No. 396 on May 25, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 139,
Nays 4, 2 present, not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 396 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 16, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays
0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
396 on May 26, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor